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Demons Within

Snow White

and

Rose Red

"The snot nosed brat." Sasuke and Tsunade answered immediately. The pair glared at each other before looking back at Danzo, who was sputtering in outrage.

"Why are you so surprised? The old hag is like his mother and he's fucking the Uchiha." Kyuubi spat. Both Tsunade and Sasuke turned their glares onto him.

"Not helping." Naruto muttered, nudging the fox in the side.

"Does anyone else have an opinion?" Tsume asked. The crowd was silent for a moment before the crowd erupted in shouts. The Rookie 9 and Team Gai all jumped on stage and stood behind Naruto, silently taking their position as the rest of the crowd called out their opinions.

"He always helps me set up my stand in the morning!"

"Naruto stops to talk with me every day!"

"He's saved my ass more than once!"

"Naruto stops by to eat at my restaurant every day!"

Hiashi stood up silently and cleared his throat. The spectators at the front of the crowd quieted down first. Slowly, the silence ran through the crowd until the square was silent.

"Those who believe and trust Danzo, raise you hands." Hands shot up and the crowd started muttering again. "Silently." Hiashi ordered and the crowd went silent once more. The council looked out over the crowd, silently gauging. Naruto never looked back at the crowd.

"Now those who believe and trust Naruto, raise you hands." Whereas those who sided with Danzo shot their hands up right away, the crowd shuffled around a bit before hands began to peak over the heads. As the council watched, hands continued to rise until almost the entire square was filled with raised hands. Danzo shook with anger as he watched his village side with Naruto.

Screeching, Danzo rushed at Naruto raising the staff over his head.

"Naruto!" Sasuke screamed, taking a step forward. Tsunade grabbed his shoulder, silently reminding him he was holding their daughter. The two elders weakly fell back into the chairs.

Naruto raised a hand over his head, protecting himself but not moving. Kyuubi jumped forward his hands out stretched as Naruto's friends tried to stop Danzo without harming him. Danzo broke away and hurled the staff at Naruto's head.

The staff hit an invisible barrier and clattered to the ground. Naruto peeked up past his arm.

Danzo stood stock-still, allowing just enough time for Sakura, Lee and Neji to grab a hold of him.

"What the hell is the matter with you?" Tsume yelled. She pushed herself to her feet but was held back by Choji's father. Danzo growled and began to struggle against his captors. His carefully groomed appearance falling apart around him; face red, hair chaotic and expression murderous.

"He's ruined everything! Let me kill him! He should have died years ago but the damned abomination never died! Let me kill him." The villagers began to back up and mutter amongst themselves. Kiba, Hinata, and the others joined their friends in restraining Danzo.

"He's an abomination?" Kyuubi growled. His arms were still out stretched towards Naruto and sweat gleamed on his temple. A slight glimmer of the barrier could be seen shimmering around Naruto. Naruto was pushing against the barrier, screaming silently through the bubble.

"You and your cronies have been trying to kill him since he was a baby. Even more, you've overlooked every time that he ended up in the hospital because one of the villagers decided to take revenge on him. Shit." Kyuubi squeezed his eyes shut and Naruto calmed down. The demon let out a breath and lowered his arms, the barrier still glinting in the sunshine.

"You've nearly killed him hundreds of times. If it wasn't for me, he would've been dead before he was three. Hell, the only reason I actually sort of like him is because he's strong." Danzo spit at the fox and sneered.

"There's no evidence of me ever touching that boy." Kyuubi grinned, his fangs glinting eerily.

"You did try very hard to prevent that didn't you. Hell, look at what you did to the Uchihas." Danzo sneer fell slightly before jumping back into place. Sasuke stepped forward once more, his daughter now in Tsunade's terrified hands.

"Excuse me?" Ice dripped from Sasuke's voice.

"You knew he ordered the massacre. Here's why. Your parents witnessed him beating the kit with a bat. Long story short, they threatened to take it to the Hokage who was protecting him and didn't back down. So he used your brother's need to excel and ordered the massacre. You weren't supposed to survive, but Itachi wasn't able to finish the job. Part of the reason he went bat-shit crazy." Sasuke shook and his eyes began to spin. Danzo paled and shook his head.

"You have no proof. Of anything you're implying! None!" Danzo began to struggle once more, only now it was to get away.

"On the contrary, if Ino or her father would help, I can show you." A large thud came from Naruto as he began to pound against the barrier again. Kyuubi and Naruto glared at one another silently before Naruto fainted.

"What did you do to him?" Sasuke demanded. Kyuubi waved his hand tiredly, plopping down.

"He doesn't want me to do this so I put him to sleep. Not such a good idea as it knocks me out too." Sasuke growled but the demon ignored him as Ino stepped forward cautiously. Waving her over, the fox gave her a few directions and took her hand.

"Now, you all trust the Yamano mind reading thingy so she'll be using that as I project it." Ino turned her focus onto Naruto as she began the jutsu. Kyuubi caught her as she fainted and closed his eyes. Above the stage, a watery image appeared.

Shadows undulated as Ino and Kyuubi's images appeared in the mist. A hallway of dark doors began to form in front of the pair. Most were chained, boarded, or defiled while others looked like normal doors. The Kyuubi on the screen started down the hallway.

"These are Naruto memories. These first doors are his earliest memories." The pair approached a door that, while darker and more beat up than the others, was not barred or chained. The Kyuubi glanced behind him, out towards the villagers, and spoke.

"This is proof that what I said about the Uchihas is true." The Kyuubi opened the door and stepped in with Ino. Before them was an alleyway. The moon hung above the street, not quite full, giving light to the dark, narrow passage. Just out of reach a pair of men were kicking something out of sight. A small cry of pain sounded and one of the men kicked harder. The pair of men spat on the dirty, bleeding boy and left silently.

For a few minutes, all the spectators could hear was labored breathing and the occasional sob.

Quietly, another man stepped into the alley, almost sliding through the darkness. At the soft cry, the man paused and looked at the young boy. Haltingly, the man reached out to touch the little boy, who cringed away from the feeling. The man collapsed onto the ground and bundled the boy up to his chest carefully.

Suddenly the pair were at a small apartment. The boy was now bandaged and lying on mattress on the floor. The man's face was now visible, but all the villagers could see was Uchiha Itachi's ANBU mask. He was sitting beside the small bed, shaking. Silently, Naruto opened his eyes and watched as the man beside him began to ramble.

Outside the dreamworld, Danzo began to shake as he heard Itachi spill his distressed guts to the boy his parents were fighting to protect. The hands confining him held him tighter and more grabbed on. The apparition told everything; who told him to do it, why he did it, even why it was ordered. When the dreamworld Naruto placed a hand on Itachi's shoulder, Itachi panicked and ran. Little Naruto's hand dropped and he fell unconscious again.

Kyuubi pulled a sobbing Ino out of the memory and back into the hallway. Ino wiped at her eyes and tried to calm herself. Looking up and down the hallway, Ino turned to the fox demon.

"But ... why are some of them chained and barred?" Kyuubi gave the blond girl a side long glance and answered quietly.

"The chained doors are memories too painful or horrible to allow open. They used to give the kit terrible nightmares so I blocked them off." Ino's eyes widened, terrified at the thought that there were worse memories than that one. Kyuubi looked down the hallway and broke open the chains to one of the doors. Gesturing, the demon pulled the village into another memory.

Here Naruto was little, maybe three or four. He sat alone at a tiny table in a tiny apartment, eating hard bread with difficulty with slightly discolored water. Someone banged at the door and he gave a jump. The banging continued and Naruto shoved his meager breakfast into an empty cabinet before hiding beneath the battered armchair just in time. As his bare foot disappeared, the door broke open revealing several older men. The men began turning the small apartment inside-out, not caring if the young child's possessions were destroyed. A muffled squeal sounded as one of the men pulled Naruto out from underneath the chair. Naruto looked up at his attackers, his eyes widened in fear as he spotted a kunai. Somehow their faces were blurred, as if Naruto hadn't seen them clearly. One face that was perfectly clear was Danzo's. He held the kunai, a sadistic grin on his face.

The memory sputtered out as Ino and Kyuubi were pulled out. Naruto glared down at the pair before dematerializing the hallway into the mists. Naruto uttered two words so coldly and sharply that the pair of trespassers obeyed without question.

"Get Out."

Alright, I literally just wrote this. So... there's been absolutely no editing on this. However, I feel kind of guilty that I'm so behind. Only one more month of school!

-Rose